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Half a millennium of European warfare brilliantly retold by masterly historian Brendan Simms
At the heart of Europe's history lies a puzzle. In most ...
Born at the turn of the 20th century and raised in Vienna, Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original ...
It is 1941. While the 'war of chaos' rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues ...
A landmark history of postwar America and the second volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric FonerIn this momentous ...
Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the ...
While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in ...
This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish ...
Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the ...
For centuries arsenic's image as a poison has been inextricably tied to images of foul play. In King of Poisons, John Parascandola examines the ...
Set against the turbulent background of China in the first half of the 20th century, this reads like a romantic novel; but it's a ...
In Flaws in the Ice, prize-winning historian David Day searches for the real Douglas Mawson. After travelling south on his own six-week odyssey to the ...
An in-depth look at the strategy and tactics of the visionary commander who beat the United States in the Vietnam War General Vo Nguyen Giap ...
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal ...
Europe and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined ...
